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James Glanville on 31 Jan 12Check out nb a very cool, collaborative note taking tool developed by MIT's Haystack Group. Last night I got into a discussion with Sanjoy Mahajan, an Olin College professor who got his Phd at MIT. We were talking about Eriz Mazur's Peer Instruction technique when he began describing how in his flipped-classroom courses he uses the MIT Haystack Group's "nb" software to enable his student's to collaboratively discuss the course readings (online in pdf form) through shared, online annotations & notes. Sanjoy's students are required to participate in the online annotation discussion, making their own annotations and responding to others, the night before his class. He then reviews the annotations to prepare the next day's discussion and peer-instruction lesson plan.